#Pride2018: Twitter India & The Quint Talk LGBTQ+ Rights
This #Pride2018, The Quint joins hands with Twitter India to host a marathon of panel discussions on LGBTQ+ rights.
To mark #Pride2018, The Quint has joined Twitter India to host a marathon of panel discussions on the LGBTQ+ narrative, the political will of people in the community, the media’s role in the movement, and much more!
Watch the Panel Discussion Live:
The First Ever LGBTQ Panel in India
The Panels
India Big Picture: The LGBTQ Narrative — The first discussion of the day will be moderated by activist and journalist Dhrubo Jyoti, and the speakers are Rituparna Borah, co-founder, Nazariya and Vikramaditya Sahai, writer and queer activist.
The Role of Media — Vivek Divan, a lawyer fighting against IPC Sec 377 in courts, and Sukhdeep Singh, editor of and LGBTQ+ focused magazine, Gaylaxy, will discuss the topic at hand, moderated by The Quint’s Urmi Bhattacherya.
LGBTQ Rights & Political Will — The moderator for this panel is journalist Kunal Majumder and the speakers are Abhijit Iyer Mitra, Aiyshwarya Mahadev and Roshan Shankar.
Queer Trailblazers — The moderator for the final panel of the day is Amrita Tripathi and the speakers are Vasu Primlani, Anjali Gopalan and Udai Bhardwaj.
Preparations in full swing!
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